Woman pleads guilty to child abuse charges

5:48 PM,
Feb. 5, 2014

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Tiresa Alitasi Sauni, 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to two second-degree felony counts of child abuse in 5th District Court stemming from her arrest in May 2012.

Sauni was charged with a first-degree felony charge of sexual abuse of a child and a second-degree felony charge of child abuse intentionally inflicting serious physical injury in 2012. In exchange for the support of a guilty plea filed by defense attorney Michael Lastowski, Sauni's first-degree felony charge was reduced to a second-degree felony.

"There are some of the facts we dispute, but for the purpose of this ...